The pope called for specific, concrete, immediate steps that political leaders could take to end the wars and bring peace to the Holy Land and to Ukraine.
Easter
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Pope Francis at vigil: Easter marks the ‘rebirth of hope amid the ruins of failure’
“Let us lift our eyes to him and ask that the power of his resurrection may roll away the heavy stones that weigh down our souls,” the pope said in his homily on March 30.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Easter means in the Holy Land this year, in the middle of war
Easter will not be postponed this year. It will not wait until the war is over. It is precisely now, in our darkest hour, that resurrection finds us.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Remembering Joanna, the forgotten witness to Christ’s resurrection
History has ignored Joanna, as it has most of the other women who followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem and provided for him and the Twelve “from their resources” (Lk 8:2-3).
Posted inDispatches, Faith
What the Good Friday Passion play means for Latino Catholics
For parishioners at Most Holy Trinity Church in Phoenix, Ariz., dramatizing Christ’s Passion on the Via Crucis is a way of passing on the faith.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Easter Sunday starts in grief and silence
A Homily for Easter Sunday, by Father Terrance Klein
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Here’s what Pope Francis has planned for Holy Week
As Catholics around the world observe Holy Week, the hosts of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell, take a look at Pope Francis’ Holy Week plans.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Easter: The Feast of Humility
March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord: The Easter experience is one that unfolds slowly and deliberately.
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Full Text: Pope Francis’ Easter message to the Catholics in the Holy Land
“Easter, the heart of our faith, is all the more significant for you who celebrate this feast in the very places where our Lord lived, died and rose again,” Pope Francis writes to Catholics of all rites living in the Holy Land.
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When preparing to preach, treat your homily like music
Ed Foley, O.F.M. Cap., discusses how, when preparing one of his homilies, he meticulously annotates his manuscript, like a conductor’s score. “Where’s the crescendo? Where’s the pause? When do the trumpets come in?”